Perhaps I am a terrible person for admitting this (and I definitely hope that bloodshed in Ukraine will be averted), but I cannot help but enjoy watching Obama and Kerry getting schooled in Realpolitik by Putin.
By removing American force from the table and shrinking the military to pre-WW II levels, he has only destabilized the post-Soviet world order. Frankly speaking, Obama has survived this long largely by coasting and lowered expectations. Kerry has been wrong on pretty much every policy issue he has ever supported. Perhaps instead of ten unnecessary trips to Israel, he should not have pawned Ukraine off to Biden and paid a visit to Kiev?
"Now Ukraine has emerged as a test of Obama’s argument that, far from weakening American power, he has enhanced it through smarter diplomacy, stronger alliances and a realism untainted by the ideology that guided his predecessor.
It will be a hard argument for him to make, analysts say." (For entire article)
Now that's the understatement of the day! By removing American force from the table and shrinking the military to pre-WW II levels, he has only destabilized the post-Soviet world order. Frankly speaking, Obama has survived this long largely by coasting and lowered expectations. Kerry has been wrong on pretty much every policy issue he has ever supported. Perhaps instead of ten unnecessary trips to Israel, he should not have pawned Ukraine off to Biden and paid a visit to Kiev?
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